ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 373 
Burial No. 7, the scattered bones of a disturbance, presumably including two 
skulls, at a general depth of 16 inches. Somewhat apart from the bones, though 
no doubt originally with them, was an implement of gray flint, somewhat more 
than 6 inches in length (Fig. 86). One of similar shape, but smaller, was found 
Fra. 86.— Blade of flint. With Burial No. 7. Citico, Tenn. (Full size.) 
by us in the aboriginal cemetery on the Bradley Place,! Crittenden County, Ark. 
We have not been able to find other illustrations of implements exactly like this 
one in publieations relating to aboriginal work in stone. Dr. H. M. Whelpley 
of St. Louis, however, whose collection is so well known, tells us the specimen is 
not uncommon and that in his collection are a number similar in type. 
Also out of place among the bones was an ear-plug of the pin-shape variety, 
made from the columella of a conch-shell and having a considerable knob at the 
head; and a small arrowpoint of flint. 
Burial No. 8, partly flexed to the right, the head ESE., in a grave 2 feet in 
depth. Under the skull was some red pigment, red oxide of iron. 
Burial No. 9, about one foot deep, had that part of the skeleton which is 
below the pelvis cut away by another grave. The head was directed SE. On 
the lower part of the thorax was a handsome celt of argillaceous, sedimentary 
rock somewhat exceeding 8 inches in length and plainly showing where the 
handle had been attached. Immediately on this implement lay a celt of iron 
or of steel, about 4 inches in length. 
Several celts of this kind were found with burials at the Citico site, yet 
absolutely no other objects indicating contact with white people were present 
except four glass beads found with a comparatively superficial burial. One 
would expect in a site where the aborigines had been able to obtain iron from the 
whites that many other articles of European origin would be present. We 
were so impressed by this anomalous character of the deposits at this place 
that though we realized the chances of having found celts of meteoric iron 
(which, as the reader knows, could have been made by the aborigines without 
contact with whites) were small, we decided to have the matter definitely deter- 
1 * Some Aboriginal Sites on Mississippi River," Fig. 44. 
